Sorry Ronda

- By Jim Culp

UFC 207 was very built up in the media as the ideal time for Ronda Rousey, a lovely girl of just 29 years, to come back and regain her lost title of Bantam Weight Champion of the UFC.

From 2004 to 2008, she on several Olympic medals in Judo, and was ready for the big rings. We all watched her advance with staggering defeats of opponents (some under a minute), and grew to love her cute smile, her bad-ass moves, and domination of a field that most men cant handle.

In 2015, Ronda was defeated by Holly Holm in Melbourne, Australia at UFC 193.

In my opinion, and as I stated at the time, she was unprepared for that fight.

I know she trained and worked out, but she wasn't ready for Holly's reach, and definitely not ready to get roundhouse kicked in the head (I've been there; it's no fun).

Last night, Ronda faced Amanda Nunes, a badass Brazilian fighter with a 69 inch arm reach. Again, Ronda trained, but she wasn't ready for a constant deluge of solid punches.

In previous fights, Ronda avoided this by successful grapples that resulted in hard take-downs, and quick submissions by arm-bar.

Amanda Nunes, trained in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu by none other than Ryan Franco, was prepared for Ronda, though. She evaded every attempt by Rousey to grapple her, and subsequently landed blow after blow to Ronda's head and face.

48 seconds into the fight, it was stopped because Ronda was barely able to stand, and was visibly hurt.

I always loved and favored Ronda Rousey, but this second ass whipping tells me that she needs to take some time off, then get back in the dojo; and get back to the basics that made her famous in the first place. If she wants to retire, she has many avenues that would keep her well paid for twenty years. Either way, we love you Ronda, and hope you get over this and return if you can. If you cant, we still love you.

Tonight the music seems so loud
I wish that we could lose this crowd

December 16th, 2016

The Rite of Ignorance

-By Jim Culp

It's that time of year again. The holiday season is upon us, and there is widespread gift purchasing, decorating of houses and trees, and food for mile.

Most folks here in Kansas celebrate the Christian version of the holiday we have come to commonly call Christmas. Christians believe that Jesus the Christ was born on December 25th, and it all goes on from there. That's cool. You have the right to believe what you want, and as a soldier, I have laid my life on the line twice for your right to do so. I wont go into a diatribe about my non-belief of that faith; I've already done that in another blog, and my readers have told me that they hate repetition; they get enough of that from CNN or FOX.

In January, the holidays will be over, and a controversial businessman will become the 45th President of the United States of America. I wish him well; he's got one hell of a task to take on. On that note, I've heard very intelligent comments on his candidacy, and some pretty damn ignorant ones.

But yesterday, a very ignorant person made three statements that I feel the need to comment on.

Statement One: "Mexicans rape their babies."

My first question was, "what Mexicans?"

She said "all Mexicans; and all Muslims."

I truly was not fully aware that blatant ignorance like that existed in 2016, but I stand corrected. Some people are simply ignorant, and that ignorance breeds inherent stupidity when it is not cured by research and fact finding.

Statement Two: "Don't let them people out of Syria; they're all ISIS."

I replied with two answers. "Are you really that frickin' stupid?" and... "Really, though. Are you that frickin' stupid?"

Statement Three: "We need to get back to Christmas being about Jesus."

I replied with one statement.

"Enter the word "Yule" into Wikipedia or Dictionary.com."

Lastly, this is the United States of America, but there are literally millions of people walking around saying that "Bob can't say that," or "Mary needs to understand that we don't need any more immigrants."

Again, ignorance. I advise anyone that thinks like that to read the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the USA. Then I advise them to study their family tree and see where their family came from. I assure you, unless you are a Native North American Indian, your family didn't come form "Merca."

Educate yourself.

Merry Yule. May your drink be strong and your love stronger.

Today's Visit at Walmart

-By Jim Culp

11/23/2016

Today I went to the Walmart located at Legends Kansas City (that's about 435 North and Parallel Parkway).

I gathered a few simple items, and headed up to the self check out, because as with any Wednesday before the Thanksgiving Holiday, there are four checkers for the sixty five people with loaded carts trying to get out of the store.

I scanned my items, and prior to moving to the "select payment" screens, I double checked my sub total, which the machine indicated was $49.72.

"Wait a minute, I thought. "That doesn't look right, even to my superior third grade arithmetic."

Then I remembered that I had my smart phone with me, and whipped that little doo-dad out and opened the calculator application.

I added up the items, and they totaled up at $36.62.

"Hmmm...." I thought, let's do that again. Of course, being the OCD guy that I am (life has taught me some hard lessons), I did it three more times. $36.62 each time, no error.

I called the self check attendant over.

"Um, Ma'am, look at this." I showed her my findings.

She said, without a breath, "oh, you're not counting the tax."

I informed her that even with the taxes, it would only be ( I was guessing) about $40.00 or so. (I also couldn't remember whether the machine adds the taxes at that point, or after you select a payment option.)

She stated "well, I ain't sure, but let me get a manager."

The manager came over a few minutes later.

She immediately took out her calculator, and added the items up, which gave her $36.62 as well.

She then stated that since something was wrong, they'd just ring my items up at HER register, meaning the one the attendant uses at the self checkout area.

They both proceeded to re-scan my items, and this time, they came up with $49.79.

She then said, "yep, that's right. With .09% tax, that comes out right.

I asked her what she was smoking, and why the amount came out different.

She said "that's what we came up with Sir, and that's what we're going to do."

I left the cart sitting at her station, and walked out of the store without another word spoken, or the waste of another minute of my precious time off from work.

I also would not engage in a battle of wits with two unarmed cave women.

I reached my car, and sat there thinking, "I wonder how many thousands of people a day that happens to, and it's never caught?" That could easily translate to millions per day in Walmarts' pockets.

I guess the reason I wrote this is A) it was therapeutic, and B) check your figures at Walmart.

YESTERDAY

-By Jim Culp

            Yesterday, October 14, 2016, at 4:10 AM, I was a half century old.

It is something special to me that my 50th birthday was on a Friday, and the 14th of October that I was born on was a Friday too. I never, in my younger years, imagined that I would live this long, but I am glad that have. I set many goals for my life twenty-five years ago, and I've already accomplished half of them; so I guess now, for this remaining fifty years, that I am blessed to carry on into, must be for the rest of those.

            I already raised my daughter, the most precious thing to me on this planet, and I consider that the greatest goal that a man can achieve. I didn't do it perfect, by any means; but I look at her today, and I see a woman that stands up for her beliefs, is quick to charity, loves unconditionally, and works harder than anyone I know. Mission accomplished.

            I retired from the military, after a long career of 22 years, and took soldiers to war twice, and brought them back. I consider that the second highest achievement of my life. In those years, I gained lifelong friends, some that I regard the same as my own blood, others brothers and sisters of the rifle nonetheless. I lost six soldiers in that time, but none that can be counted against my leadership; they were from the lacking of a society that takes care of them as they should.

            I accomplished goals of career; in 1995 I became a 5th Army Certified Instructor, and I loved teaching soldiers young and older the skills of war, like landmines and machine guns, map reading, and how to use that pistol on their shoulder when there was no other means to defeat our enemies. I attended four colleges, and never earned a degree. Life always seemed to get in the way, and I still learned the skills of writing, and the love of history and literature. I graduated from Gunsmith School in 1997, and collected, fired, traded, and used firearms and performed thousands of ballistic tests for the better part of 10 years.

            Finally, I produced, recorded, and distributed my own music record, titled "End of the Tunnel", and we'll go so far as to say it sold way less than a million copies. It doesn't matter...a long term, personal goal was accomplished. I didn't do it by myself. I was assisted by a brilliant songwriter, guitarist, and recording expert in Grapeview, Washington, and together we completed the work in 2010. Thanks Mike Morrison.

            Yesterday I was on the job, hauling concrete and other materials across central Kansas, and although I didn't have time to read them until this morning, I heard chirp after chirp of my smart phone telling me another person was chiming in to which me Happy Birthday. Family, friends, military brothers and sisters, cousins, in-laws, and outlaws made me feel very special, loved, and generally positive about life. If you were one of those people that brightened my day, know well that I love you and miss you.

            Paul McCartney once said that "I believe in yesterday." To me, yesterday proved  to be something I believe in too. Now it's time to work on tomorrow. I don't know exactly what tomorrow holds, but this big family I have will make it a little easier.

Thanks for a great feeling, and I wish peace and blessings on you all. 

September 29, 2016

"Three Strikes, and You're Out"

-By Jim Culp

Some people are "happily married". I wholeheartedly say that

that description fits you, I say "amen, pass the mashed 'taters."

But for me, my marriages were just way too one sided for me.

I liken them to my years of worshipping Christian gods that

never once talked to me, answered a prayer, or showed me a

sign that I could possibly define as one.

My marriages were best defined as nightmares that I couldn't wake from.

They were all full of challenges that I couldn't possibly overcome,

and full of kinfolks or ex-husbands on her side that I had to be measured against.

Well, today marks the end of that nightmare.

One of my rock and roll idols, the great Alice Cooper, asked on

Facebook a day or so ago if anyone had ever witnessed a real vampire.

I replied that I have; I was married to three of them.

The last one took so much blood that I needed a transfusion.

Lastly, I have always championed the use of the baseball metaphor of

"three strikes, and you are out." I think that should apply to lots of things

in life. Like repeat criminals, going back on your word, and not paying someone

money you owe them.

I am happy to apply it to marriage.

Three's it for me. I'm out of the game.

-Jim

September 16, 2016

The Age of Little Reason

By Jim Culp

            It's very hard to believe it is September, and harder to believe that we will have a new President in elect in just 50 days. But I read some articles this morning that both shocked and amazed me. It was only a few days ago that I cooled myself off from the Brock Turner ordeal, and I was hoping my blood wouldn't boil again so soon.

            Today I read an article posted by an old friend in Ireland, and it set me back a bit as I read it. I am again wondering what our society is coming to, and if this isn't the end of what we call a sensible and moral structure for what our nation should be.

            The article I am referring to is about a two year old girl. That two year old will be nameless in this article, because I don't know her name, and wouldn't release it if I did out of respect for the family. That two year old girl was raped by a 16 year old kid, who was 17 at the time of arrest, and after two years in Juvi, he's now 19. This person, Kraigen Grooms, in April of 2013, raped that two year old girl while another "man" recorded the event. Grooms was arrested in March of 2014, and charged with a Class B felony with a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison. He plead guilty to one count of a lascivious act with a child, and Judge Myron Gookin decided not to require any prison time for him.

He will be required to register as a sex offender, and received five years of supervised release with a potential 10-year suspended sentence if he breaks parole.

            I have one reply and a few statements, then I'll ask something of you, dear reader, and it wont be money, I promise. My reply to the above information is "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?" Please excuse the expletive, but ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Ok, I'm done with that.

            My first statement starts with a question. Where are we going with this? Is rape no longer a crime? Brock Turner raped a college age woman, and got off clean as a whistle. Austin Wilkerson got two years probation for raping a woman that he was supposed to be caring for. And not that I want to trivialize either one of them, but THIS IS RAPE OF A TODDLER. What kind of sick mother fucker does shit  like that? The answer is Kraigen Grooms. Not only him, but the sick son of a bitch that filmed it.

            So let me give you my solutions. I know judges make life changing decisions every day, and I understand leniency in many cases. I've had friends and relatives that committed crimes, but there were reasons for it, and the judge was either humane about it, or gave them more than they deserved. But we are talking about RAPE. In the case of Grooms, raping a child. A society that does not pass laws that enforce strict punishments for this type of behavior are societies that do not need to spend another day in existence on this planet.

            Rape of a woman takes a piece of her sanity, and furthermore, it takes a piece of her soul. Rape is an invasion of your most private sanctuary, and way after the physical abuse is over, the impact on your mind and your sanity go years further.

However, rape of a child is one of the cruelest malice, that act of a psychopath, and the punishment for such must take the form of a lesson that the sane and insane see in full view, and think a little harder the next time they think of committing such an act.

I think back to the Roman Empire. Rape of a Roman woman by a Roman citizen was punishable by a severe beating and imprisonment. Rape of a Roman woman by any other was crucifixion, a grueling form of prolonged death. Both were displayed publicly, and in the case of Roman on Roman, the person was disgraced and shunned in society for life.

            Today, we do not punish violent criminals, we pacify them with "punishments" like probation, counseling, and penalties, and sometimes long prison terms. This is a

failure of modern society. Criminals are placed in check by two things: Fear of death, and fear of no future. These are accomplished by a justice system that classifies psychopaths and other violent criminals completely separate from thieves and hustlers. That justice system ensures the proper punishment of a convicted criminal's crime. Steal a car? You do five years of hard labor. Hustle someone? You do ten years of picking up trash on our highways. Kill someone in other than self defense? You're executed within 60 days of conviction; conviction without a shadow of a doubt, per the Constitution of the United States of America. Rape a woman? IMMEDIATELY AFTER CONVICTION, the FAMILY OF THE RAPED decides your fate, no matter what that is, and of no cost to the taxpayer. Rape a child? (this includes priests) You are publicly (mechanically) violated, and hung in the city square. Your name is shamed for all time.

It's that simple. You don't reform violent criminals. You don't reform rapists, and your sure as fuck do not reform sick mother fuckers that rape children or babies. You eradicate them from the Earth.

            That all being said, let me get back to what can happen, and is already happening. A large number of persons (including myself) are signing a petition to have the judge (that let the rapist off with a hand slap) disbarred and removed.

You can sign that petition at:

 https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-judge-myron-gookin-releasing-toddler-rapist-kraigen-grooms.

PLEASE take a minute and do so.

            My final comment. Do we live in the age of reason? If so, I cant see it. That little girl will NEVER be the same, even after years of therapy. Those acts of cruelty and malice will scar her mind and soul for years to come. Let's stop letting things like this happen. Our government and justice system must be reformed. It isn't working, and people are paying the price for it.

September 11, 2016

9-11

Fifteen years ago, the world was shocked as we watched TV and saw footage of two jet airliners crashing into Towers One and Two of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York.

We were all immediately outraged, and very hungry for revenge.

It seems that a group of terrorists (radical Muslims) perpetrated this insane act of cowardice and mass murder.

For the next fifteen years, up to the time I am typing this article, I have researched, read thousands of documents, and talked to hundreds of people about this subject.

I know people that worked in NORAD that day. I know people that worked in the Pentagon that day. When I was on vacation in Cancun in 2006, I met a guy named Kenny, who was an electrician on Tower Number Two. He had left the building that morning after a night shift, and was headed home after breakfast when the planes hit.

In an event such as this, as always, there are hundreds of "Conspiracy Theories" about the event. But it's real damn funny, no, it's actually genuinely fucked up, that these "Conspiracy Theories" turn out years later to be the truth.

In 2007, I sent out letters to many agencies, including the FBI, the CIA, and the President of the United States, asking the questions that I outline below.

I never received a single answer.

And before I go on, let me say this as emphatically as I possibly can: I am not, nor have I ever, taking one bit of piss out of the people who lost lives in that event. My heart goes out to their families, and I wish them all the happiness from here on in their lives. Their losses were all too real, and tehy are the primary reason that I have spent 15 years chasing the truth behind these events.

So here are my questions. If you, blog or Facebook reader, can answer them, I'd love to hear from you.

1. Why, exactly, did Building Seven fall?

2. Why, if jet fuel was the cause of collapse, the towers fall at free fall speed (3-4 floors per  second?)?

3. Why, exactly, did everyone in the Bush administration lie about these events?

4. Please, if you can, show me a document or photograph that links Osama Bin laden to the 911 attacks.

5. Please, if you can, show me a document that links Al Quaeda or the Taliban to the 911 attacks.

6. Please show me a document and photographs of a jetliner crashing or flying into the Pentagon.

7. Please show me a plane crash site of a jetliner in Shanksville, Pennsylvania?

8. Please tell me why the exposed columns of the tower buildings have demolition 45 angle design cuts on them made by detonation cord?

9. Please tell me why there was active thermite in the wreckage of the towers three to five weeks after the event?

10. Please tell me why George Bush Jr. and Richard Cheney were not questioned under oath by an independent panel, instead of a private interview with the 9-11 Commission where THEY dictated the parameters of the meeting?

11. Finally, please tell me why a man that was an electrician saw wiring that morning in the basements of those towers, wiring that he'd never seen before, after working in that building for 18 years?

One last comment. For all you smartasses out there. I AM a demolition expert; trained and tested. I understand explosives, and I understand the dynamics of aircraft.

Scientists at Brigham Young University gave me many answers to these questions. But I would certainly like to hear yours.

Thanks,

Jim Culp, 2016

No Clue

-By Jim Culp

September 8, 2016

I was both amazed and generally bored by the presidential candidates last night at

the Commander In Chief forum last night on NBC.

Hillary Clinton was first, so I'll roast her first.

First and foremost, I do not believe that a person that has not served on active duty in one of the armed forces should qualify to be a Commander in Chief, and therefore the President of the United States of America.

Hillary Clinton is a lawyer, and a crooked lawyer at that. But I'll keep to the topic.

Her predecessor, President Obama, is a lawyer too. He's never had any interest in the military, and therefore has to be advised by several persons daily about even understanding military protocols. Hillary Clinton has never done anything with the military, except visit the troops. She has time in the white house as first lady, and time as Secretary of State, but no time at all in a role as a soldier, a commander, or even a ride along. She just isn't going to fit the bill for that role. Sorry Hillary; no wait...sorry USA.

As for the forum, Mrs. Clinton was asked questions by several veterans, soldiers, and even some ex-special forces operatives. She gave (as usual) blouse and round about answers to their questions. Every person that she responded to had that "you are not answering my question" look on their face.

Then it was time for the Republican candidate, Donald Trump.

He answered every question, but with, like Hillary, a round about way and didnt ever really give answers. One guy that asked about persons serving in the military gaining citizenship, and Trump did say he'd consider a program for that.

But we're back to square one with qualifications.

Donald Trump is a very, very successful businessman. There is no doubt about that.

After all, he is a billionaire times 4.5. That's success in my book.

But he knows jack about the military, military operations, and commanding the military. He's already hired some retired Generals to advise him, and they are going to tell him what he wants to hear, because they are going to get fatter wallets after doing so. The most embarrassing thing that Trump said in the whole interview is that "we should have taken the oil from Iraq." That's cool if we are going to start an empire, which I am not so sure we shouldn't, but that's not what we are now. We should have never invaded Iraq, and we should have never invaded Afghanistan, because the preface and reasons for either were based on lies. But I digress.

Donald Trump isn't qualified to be the Commander in Chief, and therefore not the President of the United States of America. There, my opinions...take them or leave them. But, before I go, I'm going to address this like a soldier. I earned that right, because I served for 22 years, and two wars.

A Commander if Chief needs to know what it is like to wake up in a shelter half tent at 0300, and have to place your feet in frozen boots.

He/She should also have to feel what it is like to have bullets flying over your head, and mortars landing 2-300 meters from your position.

He/She needs to know what it is like to have to blindly follow a questionable order, or you could face hard time in Leavenworth, and I don't mean the part where Applebee's and McDonalds are.

He/She needs to understand that men and women's lives are not his/hers to waste, they are the nation's people's lives to put forward for our defense if they are needed, and/or the situation was warranted. Iraq and Afghanistan were neither.

He/She needs to understand that millions of men and women have died in wars and conflicts that were warranted, and their families endured great hardships because of it.

Two final things.

Hillary Clinton cant keep a State Department staff in line, because they couldn't follow her lies any better than a psychiatrist could. She is guilty of grand perjury, and responsible for the death of four men in Benghazi. She should be on trail for both of these things, and at a minimum, barred from further federal service.

Donald Trump is a businessman. He will find out on day one, if he wins... that doing things in the White House aren't the same as at Trump Tower.

July 30, 2016

ID Vote

By Jim Culp

Yesterday I was watching the evening news with Scott Pelley, as is my routine

when I am not working late or doing something out of the house. It was the usual news...ISIS is responsible for everything from car bombs to mass shootings, as well as shopping carts missing from Walmart, and mosquitoes with ZIKA.

But when they started the section on the Democratic National Convention, I was taken aback from what I heard. It said that people (potential voters) were "incensed because they couldn't vote without a photo ID."

Wait a fucking minute.

Why don't you have a photo ID?

I'm a legal citizen, a veteran of two wars, and a tax paying, law abiding, working adult.

I have to have a photo ID to do just about anything.

Then I thought...hmmm. Maybe the reason you don't have a photo ID is because you are a criminal...nope, you'd still have to have a photo ID.

Oh wait...I know...you're an illegal "Immigrant". That's it.

Guess what? You DONT HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN OUR ELECTIONS, OR ANY OTHER FUCKING RIGHT IN OUR COUNTRY UNTIL YOU ARE A FUCKING CITIZEN..

Coexist

-By Jim Culp

This past week was a time for some Kansas City citizens to show their true colors, the

colors of Black and White. This coincidentally comes long at a time when leaders call for the citizens of every city to coexist and learn to accepted each other instead of pushing their beliefs and ideals on to other persons.

On an evening that we will remember for a long time, two women dressed up and went out to a bar in Lenexa (a part of the Kansas City metropolitan area) that they had frequented many times, and even knew some of the management and other patrons.

This is a place that sells your average bar foods, and has beers on tap, as well as well drinks for average prices. There is an area where people can dance and have fun.

At some point in the night, some very ignorant and angry patrons entered the bar, and began making comments on the two women I am talking about, commenting on their sexual preferences and their weight, and giving them a general hard time.

This led to an accusation that one of them "bumped" one of the other party, and this led to an altercation that was brief and controlled.

But the management of this establishment decided that since no one else had complained, and that (in their opinion) there was no real issue, that the group of assailants would be allowed to return to the bar, where they would quickly and decisively devise a plan to attack and humiliate the two women.

Both women were assaulted, manhandled by a coward of a "man", and kicked out of the bar because they were defending themselves. The manager and bouncer were both criminally negligent in this act, and are both liable for damages and the concession of a hate crime. Yes, it is a hate crime to attack a person in any way for their beliefs, sexual orientation, or your ignorant perception of who or what they are.

Combine this with police that are as ignorant as the hate-mongers, and unwilling to help people who are assaulted because they themselves lack the ability to see past their noses, and you have the ingredients for hate to sow its seed in our society.

These women are both strong people, and they will move past this debacle, but they now know in their hearts that there is a sickness in our local society, and that is the sickness of Hate.

"VOTE"

By Jim Culp

One day I went into a non-big-name burger shop in one of the towns that I lived in here in NW Kansas. It had been opened by a retired military guy, and I wanted to give him my business; as well as a matter of convenience, his shop was less than a mile from my house.

I walked in, and he immediately told me that he was out of everything except jalapeno burger, and hot polish sausages; as his delivery truck had failed him and the lunch rush had nailed him. {didn't know I was a poet, did ya?}

"Shit," I said. "I don't like either one of those bro. I'll catch you another day."

He smiled and said "ok then, thank you sir."

I was off to McDonalds, or Sonic, or three other burger places; I know them all well, and know exactly what I will get when I order there.

What I just described was a person (me, in this case) making a decision not to

go with what I don't like or trust on my stomach, and moving on to another avenue.

This lesson can be applied this coming November when you have the choice to vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.

The fact is you don't. You can write in any name you want. Millions will vote for Hillary because she is a Democrat that believes in the values of our Republic.. Millions will vote for Donald because they think he is a Conservative Republican. Neither are either. But people will do it anyway.

This very concept of voting for Peter because he is the lesser evil than Paul, is what has weakened our nation to the point of being on the verge of civil war or states declaring independence from the union. You vote in Darth Vader because you don't want Emperor Palpatine. For those of you that don't fancy Star Wars; you vote in Mussolini instead of Hitler. Both of them suck, and will lead us to further decline, but you do it anyway, because you think it helps us.

This November, vote for someone you have researched that does a good job at his/position, or like me, write in "NO CONFIDENCE" as a sign that you don't trust a single person that currently serves in our government.

July 9th, 2016

"Opinions"

By Jim Culp

It has been a long week for the media, the Dallas Police, and the families that

lost loved ones in several events in separate places.

I typically post opinions and fact sheets on Facebook, as well as my blog*, and get feedback from many readers; some in agreement, some not. I welcome intelligent debate and constructive criticism, they are what make me stop and think about another point of view or a better way to look at things.

I thought that in this time of struggle for our country, and unsurely of where we will find ourselves as a nation next January, I'd post my views, at least in brief, so that I can invite conversation (or debate) for the sake of possibly expanding my  mind or developing my path to wisdom. Feel free to comment on my blog, on this post thread, or at my email jcgrey2012@gmail.com.

1.         The subject of burning the flag of the United States of America came up again. Yes, it is your Constitutional Right to burn "the flag". However, I do recommend that before you burn the flag, consider the issue you are burning it for, and then think about what that flag stands for. You'll more than likely find that your reason is going to be better handled by another means; and one that wont make peaceful people want to kick your ass.

2.         There were racially motivated shootings all around this week. One by a black guy that was mad at white cops and white people in general, and the others by cops who still think that they have the right to subdue the citizenry to their will, not the reading of the law, which they are sworn to uphold and protect.

3.         The Democratic front runner got embarrassed by the guy that she thought was going to vindicate her, and then had to tell more lies in an attempt to correct the lies she told previously. Please see opinion Number 7.

4.         The Republican front runner talked more shit, and gained more promises to vote, because he is a billionaire that can pay people to do anything he wants.

There is no one, and I mean no one, on this Earth, that cannot be bought for a price. People will say that is not true, but it's because they've never been offered the right amount of money.

5.         The Black Lives Matter was really busy after the shootings. I opened their website and read the mission statement that says, ""This is the Official #BlackLivesMatter Organization founded by Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza. #BlackLivesMatter is an online forum intended to build connections between Black people and our allies to fight anti-Black racism, to spark dialogue among Black people, and to facilitate the types of connections necessary to encourage social action and engagement."

I find it disturbing that the word "Black" appears SIX times in this statement, and the words "love", "peace", or "unity" never appear once. I think that speaks volumes.

6.         I think that it is time that the citizens of the United States of America (no, not that farce of a government that sits in D.C.) hold a national conference of citizens that form a Coalition for Reform of Government. This would be a peaceful organization, not a revolutionary pipe dream, and certainly not some political movement to elect people to office that should be in old folk's homes.

7.         Part of government reform is a proposal of amendments to the US Constitution that any person in government; be that city, state, or federal, be convicted of perjury or misconduct, be barred from government "service" for their lifetime. If that perjury resulted in deaths of American citizens or allies, that person stands trial for murder. Secondly, a government that feels that it is ok to pay governments 30-40% of their earnings, while overwhelming majorities of "citizens" pay nothing at all, is abolished and never allowed to return. 

8.         Lastly, a few comments. Air Force One is a VC-25A jetliner (a modified Boeing 747, militarily modified) that uses thousands of gallons of fuel per week, and carried the President and his family to places they go in an official capacity.

It's military crew, fuel, meals, and paperclips are paid for by the citizens of the United States from their income taxes. It is absurd that this aircraft, along with hundreds of other illegal actions funded by taxpayers, be used for political campaigning. It is time, my fellow patriots, for us to build a coalition of thinkers and caretakers. Armed with a mission to repair our nation, and remove political "leaders" that shouldn't be there. It is time for us to open new ways of thinking, and to stand as a group, then a nation, and take our country back.

(*: "A Vision of Tomorrow". It can be found and followed at jimculp.blogspot.com )

July 4th, 2016

By Jim Culp

Well, it is finally July of this year we call 2016. Today, citizens and recent immigrants of the United States of America will celebrate with grilled foods of all types, sodas and fireworks for the kids, and large amounts of fermented and distilled beverages.

It is also a time when our government is more and more like a great shadow of  fear and doubt, hanging over our heads like a dark cloud. One would think that a tax paying citizen of the USA nowadays would have little to worry about.

Our population currently stands at 323,900,521; with a new immigrant entering the country at a rate of every 29 seconds. There is a new birth about every 8 seconds, and a death about every 13 seconds, so this all evens out at a fair rate. What statistics don't show, or struggle to quantify, is the rate of undocumented immigrants (sometimes called "illegal aliens") entering our country at astounding rates, and merging into our society without paying taxes, obtaining permits or licenses, or sharing the load of society.

But let's travel back 241 years. In those days, thirteen colonies had merged themselves into a unified group called the United Colonies; thirteen states called Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations. These were British colonies, all located on the Eastern Coast of North America, and to the West were territories called the Indian Reserve, a massive area of land that reached from the southern tip of East Florida to the 49th Parallel north of the Great Lakes. The West border was called the Proclamation Line of 1763, and made the statement that the Thirteen Colonies were separate from what Spain or other countries would make claim to.

Their capital was London, England, where a young monarch named King George the III sat on the throne, and demanded high taxes from the colonies.

The Colonists adopted a policy of "no taxation without representation", and declared themselves independent of Great Britain in 1775. On July 4th, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed, and the War for Independence, a struggle that would last for eight bloody years, in which many men would lose their lives for the cause of freedom to be independent. Over 6,000 colonists would lose their lives in this conflict, and thousands of her allies from France and the Netherlands would be lost. Many thousands on both sides would die from diseases, starvation, and cold weather injuries.

I related that all to you so that I could make a point that needed re-stating in these times of mistrust and government greed.

The War for Independence was fought because a government couldn't be trusted to provide valid and proper representation for colonies that it would so heavily levy taxes of ridiculous proportions. It wanted to tax people unreasonably, and use that wealth to it's own greedy means and for other purposes than what the people would gladly pay taxes for; you know, like better schools, a protective militia, and an overall quality of life that we called the "pursuit of happiness"..

In this year we call 2016, we pay federal taxes to a government in a city called Washington, in a area called the District of Columbia, where 435 Representatives and 100 Senators gather in big stone buildings and decide how we live and what freedoms we have on a fairly regular basis. Taxes are levied every year to pay for things that they simply don't, and hundreds of corrupt politicians and lobbyists shift money behind the scenes that would put the thugs in GoodFellas to shame.

They send billions of dollars to other countries, and promise billions more; while our highways and national parks fall into decay. Millions of undocumented immigrants enter our nation every year, and our government responds by allowing them to draw benefits from the government that they never paid into or contributed to in any way. Millions of people who do not work are paid benefits every month, and spend their lives doing so, because they can.

Churches take in millions of dollars per year as non taxable entities, yet do absolutely nothing for the poor, or the sick, or the dying....you know, like their founders commanded them to do. They just get rich, and richer, and talk about how God has blessed them.  

It is sufficient to say that our society has degraded to the point that we are in need of new government, and new leaders. People rant and rave daily about the gross negligence of our governments, both State and Federal, but actually do very little about it except to go to a voting booth each November and cast a vote for yet another corrupt bureaucrat that will do the same things as his predecessors, not what the electorate wanted him to do.

The time has come for revolution. No, that notion does not make me a terrorist, it simply reveals me as what I have always been; a patriot.

History "Re-Visited"

-By Jim Culp

As we approach Memorial Day this year, I am once again on memory lane, and will speak of the fallen this coming Monday. But I also revisit my studies of our own history, the last 240 years, the amount of time our young nation has prospered on this North American continent.

One anniversary of a historic event passed just two days ago.

Buried in the embarrassing pages of history, under the woes of the American Indian, the anniversary of the signing of the Indian Removal Act was just two days ago.

It was 1830, and the War between the States had not happened yet, but the sorrow and bloodshed of that great tragedy simply overshadowed what had been happening to the American Indian for years.

Andrew Jackson was President of the United States, and the nation was growing, and growing fast. Bankers were promising big change, and plantation owners were expanding, opening greater trade deals and larger bank accounts near and abroad.

 The North American Indian was promised equitable land near places where he was removed, and told that his new land was to be his forever. It sounded good, but after all, he was owed this, because the white man had taken land that was his in the first place. The Indians had lived highly civilized and often peaceful lives, in organized cities, in these southern states, for over 1300 years.

Men that respected the Indian and his culture fought against this outrage, including Congressman Day Crockett.

The Five Civilized Tribes....the Cherokee, the Choctaw, the Muscogee (Creek), the Chickasaw, and the Seminole...were the tribes so described because of their willingness to accept European customs, at least some of them, and willingly be assimilated into the White Man's culture, and his strange religion that told of an angry God that wiped out enemies and offered unconditional love.

Other Indian tribes, less noted in history, would include the Wyandot, the Kickapoo, the Potowatomi, the Shawnee, and the Lenape.

Thousands of persons of all of these would be lost on events such as the Trail of Tears, a 2,200 mile "relocation" of the Cherokee, where between 4,000 and 6,000 people lost their lives due to freezing temperatures, starvation, and dysentery.

What some history pages do not tell you is that "Americans" participated in the ethnic cleansing of an entire culture of people, across 60 tribes, over a period of a hundred years, practically erasing those cultures from the face of our planet.

I've told you that story to make something clear. Sometimes an idea, religion, or concept seems right popular to a vast majority of people. Sometimes they are good ones; but sometimes they are huge mistakes that can never be reconciled.

 My next blog will be a continuation of this one. It will cover the plight of the American Bison.

"Of Passing On"

2016 is a young year. It's just now the middle of the Season that we pagans call

Beltane, a season where the ancients believe that the God and Goddess were united for
a time of bringing in new life to the year.
2016 for allot of us has brought death, several of them very recently, of people young and old, famous and common, some close, and some very far away.
"Death" is defined in dictionaries as "the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism." ¹
That description of the noun we so commonly use today is a crude, modern definition of a process that everyone goes through at some point in their existence on this plane, and some like my father, my nephew, my brother, and two of my Army brothers; way too soon for our preference.
Other families witness/experience this event much too early in their lives, or in the passing person's life. Like the detective that was shot trying to stop a crime yesterday in Kansas City, or the five year old girl in Detroit that accidentally shot herself eleven hours ago, or the thousands of innocent people in Syria that have died and will die because of a senseless war kept alive in the name of God.
But that, dear friends, is only the beginning. Death of the physical body is the crude part of the eternal process of the path of the soul, spirit, chakra, of whatever term you choose to call the life essence of a human being.
Death as an entity is signified in ancient beliefs as a ghastly figure wearing a tattered cloak and carrying a scythe, and that being was charged with carrying the soul or the spirit to where it was headed; some eternal place. Several ancient beliefs personalized this character as the boatman, and two coins were place (on each) on the eye lids of thedead, so that the boatman received his pay for the task of ferrying the dead across the "river."
The spirit of a human being is the energy that makes up their life essence; it is neither good or evil, it is pure energy. The body and mind of that person chooses or is made to choose how that energy is directed. When a person "dies" or "passes" physically, that energy instantly leaves this plane and goes to the Source, a great pool of energy, at an unknown place. That place may be in space, on another plane, in an other dimension, or simply out of our sight. When a new human is created inside it's mother, a "soul" or "spirit" leaves the Source and takes up residence in that body for it's natural life. The Source is inhabited by trillions of spirits, because it is the energy pool for hundreds of worlds in thousands of galaxies across the mega-verse, the greater expansion of our universe. That's my belief. Death is a gate-way, not an end, although we are typically saddened when someone passes, because their time with us on this plane is ended.
Modern religions describe various ways that they soul passes from this plane to the next. Some are pleasant, some are awkward and downright scary as Hell, if you pardon the pun.
Whatever you believe, however you feel, take care not to judge the dead. There is way too much of that going around today. The people that were here yesterday and "gone" tomorrow are just passing on. They will live again.

-Jim Culp, 2016

  { ¹ Dictionary.com }

 

Accounting and Accountability

 

-By Jim Culp

 

I read today that the FBI has enough evidence to indict Hillary Clinton for the emails sent from a private server in her home while she was Secretary of State.

That's good news.

We all know that Hillary is one shady ass bitch, and should have been hanging from the gallows a long, long time ago, along with a lot of other toadies that got away with, well, yes, murder. I hope they indict her, and if there is a deity that really cares about his/her people here in the good ole US of A, he/she will at least make sure that Hillary isn't made President; that'll be disaster for the country and even more strain on an already crippled and crumbling economy.

But let's not stop there.

My research is also getting some nasty figures on the Iraq war.

The final debt of that conflict, which to this day keeps adding up, is near the six trillion mark. Sure, you're going to hear Republicans saying that the Central Bank of Iraq took care of that and that everything was a wash after the wells started working again.

Uh-huh. And I am named Jack and have a beanstalk in my backward that reaches heaven.

The truth is, from 2003 to 2009, the USA couldn't account for six billion dollars, and still hasn't accounted for all of it. The news you see at six o'clock doesn't tell you that for the first 2-3 years of the invasion/occupation, we did everything in cash. I know, I was there. Let's account for all of that, Republicans.

And as for accountability of leaders, let's start with Halliburton, and then let's revisit 9-11.

Both are chock full of holes, and the Bush Administration has a cast of characters that we can hang right up there next to Hillary when it's all said and done.

All of it, ladies and gents, is based upon lies.

Let's make Washington accountable for what had happened in the last three decades, and let's make "leaders" accountable for their sins.

 

ACCOUNTABILITY

These first six aren't statistics from the news or Wikipedia, these are actual times where I interacted with Federal or City Governments, or big Banks.

 15-20 DAYS:

This is the amount of time it takes the government (IRS) to send you a letter
letting you know that you owe them money and you better pay it if you know what is good for you.

 10 DAYS:

This is the amount of time, after you get a traffic camera ticket, that a local government sends you a letter and lets you know you better pay if you don't want to go to jail or get a heavy fine.

 45

The amount of times per month that a credit card company will call you to let you know you are overdue on an account after you had a spotless record with them for 15 to 25 years.

 7 Months

The amount of time it took a Copyright to get searched and registered with the Library of Congress in 2010.

2 years and Counting

The amount of time (in progress) it takes to get a Copyright now.

 

2 years, 3 months, 16 Days
The amount of time it took that Veterans' Administration to finalize and pay a disability claim, after never admitting that the US Army lost over 80% of my medical records and 201 Files.

A recent statistic:

Currently, in the Obama Administration, one in six cases of Requests for Information (that's 125,629 times) come up empty handed. (it is better than the Bush Administration though).

"The FBI couldn't find any records in 39 percent of cases, or 5,168 times. The Environmental Protection Agency regional office that oversees New York and New Jersey couldn't find anything 58 percent of the time. U.S. Customs and Border Protection couldn't find anything in 34 percent of cases." ¹

My point here, Ladies and Gentlemen, is that we are held instantly accountable for anything we do this society, and quickly branded and punished for it.

The Federal and State Governments, though, are not.
This Nation was founded on the concept that it has a government that is by the people, and for the people. I submit to you that those concepts have long faded away.

^{1 Associated Press, March 18, 2016}

-Jim Culp, 2016

Otto and the DPRK

Here's a statement and a question.

Otto Warmbier was sentenced to fifteen year's hard labor for stealing a sign from a hotel in Pyongyang some time ago. He was on vacation in North Korea.
Um...gimme a minute.
You did what as you were vacationing where?
You  are a fucking idiot. You're 100% responsible for your actions.
Last thing...most people don't have the money to go on vacations. I know I damn sure don't. But tell me Otto, why, why for the love of fuck, would you go on vacation to North Korea?
North Korea loves fucktards like you, because they get to make examples of fucking idiots that think that they will allow people to do what they want in their country. Yeah, I know about North Korea. I've stood three meters from their guards. I think that place should be leveled and used as a hunting preserve.
And I sure as fuck wouldn't go on vacation there. When your fifteen years are up, I suggest Acapulco or Mazatlan.

-Jim

"NOT AUTOMATIC"

-By Jim Culp

February 28, 2016

 

Good morning readers; a merry Sunday to you all.

The shooting in Hesston, Kansas was a terrible thing, and it's way cool that a brave guy took center stage and ended it with some guts, a keen shooting style, and a GUN.

Later yesterday, I caught the five o'clock news, and this newsperson was showing us the footage of the killer (in a earlier recorded video).

It showed him shooting his rifle at a plowed field somewhere in the county side.
The newsperson immediately commented that the man had an "AUTOMATIC AK-47 Assault Rifle". Here goes that blind ignorance again.
A little about me. For several years of my Army career, I was an Armor Instructor. I was also an avid gun collector and school trained gunsmith, my collection being at a whopping 42 rifles, 12 shotguns, and 9 pistols at the time I sold most of it off. You can easily say I was a gun buff, or whatever you call it.
I worked gun shows all over Kansas for 12 years, and documented thousands of rounds of .44 Magnum, .223 Remington, and tens of other calibers on a private range that a rancher in the Davis Creek area graciously allowed me to use in exchange for killing coyotes that harassed his cattle.
When in Army mode, I taught soldiers a lot of stuff, but among the subjects I taught were pistols and machine guns, two things a tanker has to know well.
So let me impart some of that knowledge to you, and maybe that ignorant newsperson will read it too.
An AK-47 is the brainchild of Mikhail Kalashnikov, a Russian designer that had brilliant designs all of his life, and in 1948 released the early version of the rifle we know today. This rifle fires a cartridge that is a stubby 7.62 variant that is only 39 millimeters long. That makes it a 7.62 X 39 cartridge. In contrast, the coaxial machine gun (the M240C) on the Abrams Tank fires a 7.62 cartridge also, but it's the NATO version, and it is 7.62X 51, which gives it better range. Anyhoo, AK-47s are a very simple weapon, they are easy to disassemble, easy to clean, and parts for them are everywhere in the world. Millions of troops, police, and pirates across the world use these rifles. Key point here. These rifles have a selector switch that makes the rifle do one of three things; 1) Safe the weapon. 2) Allow single shot mode, or 3) fire in full automatic mode.
That's the military version of the rifle.
Then, there is a sporting version of the rifle, and it's roughly the same gun, but it only has two options, Safe and Fire. "Fire" on this rifle lets the gunner fire ONE SHOT at a time, just like a Semi-Automatic deer rifle, target rifle, or whatever rifle.
These rifles don't fire in automatic mode. They are easy to buy, as long as you do a background form, and it is approved by the BATF, and you have the scratch to pay for it, they run anywhere from $300 to $800, depending where you are and who is selling them. Now, let's get back to the AUTOMATIC version. These rifles fire automatic (if selected), but NO, they are not a machine gun. Machine guns  (of this caliber and smaller) fire at VERY rapid rates of fire (750 to 950 rounds per minute), and are highly destructive and very expensive and almost impossible to obtain without military contracts. AK-47's fire at much slower rates in automatic mode (about 100 rounds per minute), or in single shot mode (about 40 rounds per minute). THE VIDEO that was shown yesterday of the Hesston killer shooting into the crop field was in SINGLE SHOT MODE. Moving on, these rifles are VERY HARD TO OBTAIN ON THE STREET, regardless of what bullshit the media tells you. You sure as hell cant walk into a gun show and buy one. If you want to buy one legally, you obtain a Class III Machine Gun License from the BATF, pay $3,000 for that license, and sign forms that allow that agency to search your home or place of business at will.
Now, in all fairness, there are a lot of people out there that think they are gunsmiths. They do some really stupid shit, and one of the things they do is
take sporting version AK-47's and other semi-automatic rifles, and tinker them to fire automatic. Yes, you can do this. But let me explain the reality of that.
You don't take a file and scrape a surface off, and get a fully automatic rifle for life. That rifle was not built to handle the pressures of automatic fire, and it's parts were not designed to handle the wear and tear that automatic fire causes.
It's worthless after firing a few magazines. Do punks and gangs do this? Sure; for one time shootings. Do some well funded gangs have real AK-47's? Sure. Money talks, bullshit walks.
Does every Tom, Dick, and Harry have a fully automatic rifle at their disposal? Of course not. I know two people (non dealers) in the entire UNITED STATES that have automatic weapons, and they have Class III licenses. Yes, I used to know someone that owned a fully automatic AR-15; he's in Leavenworth doing 25 years as I write this.
My point through all of this is that the media LIES all the time. They may not do it with bad intent, but people who do not know guns get the wrong impression of what it out there and what isn't. I hate that. I hate ignorance. So I hope this helped.
-Jim

The Week's End of Lupercalia

-By Jim Culp

 

We, modern Pagans, have re-defined our rituals and holidays to our tastes, and taken this and that from Roman, Greek, and Celtic traditions. We don't really care whether one wants to call this weekend Lupercalia, Lykaia, or Pan. The ideas are relatively the same. The festival and ritual were about cleansing the town, community, or village of nasty spirits. Today we recognize it was a time where we purge unhealthy thoughts and give our minds new vitality. We do this in many ways. It's up to the person what they actually want to do; no one holds a gun to your head and tell you "it's what god wants."

Tomorrow Christians the world over will celebrate Valentine's Day.

It is remembered officially and the Roman Catholic Church has given a person Sainthood that no one really has any clue whether the guy officially lived or when he died, only that they think he was martyred {slain for claiming belief in Christianity} at some point and that there is a grave marker in Northern Rome. No one really knows if it was one guy or two, or really who the fuck the guy was, and so forth.  

Also tomorrow, millions of people (religious and secular) worldwide will give their lovers, wives, husbands, and even children gifts of some sort. They will spend billions, yes billions (about $13.3) buying flowers, plants, candy, stuffed animals, cards, and many other things as symbolic gestures of their love to that significant person.

The whole concept is ludicrous to me, but to each his/her own.

 Yesterday, a person told me that he was sick of hearing that all Christian holidays evolved from Pagan holidays. Well shit, dude, the truth hurts, doesn't it?

Hillary Rodham Clinton

-By Jim Culp

 This article is about a very famous person that has been on our political scenes since way back; and that person is Hillary Rodham Clinton; who I will call Hillary hereafter.

In 1973, at the age of 26, Hillary received her Doctor of Law (called a J.D.; that stands for Juris Doctor) from Yale. Yes, the same college that produced her husband, William Jefferson Clinton, who I'll refer to as Bill hereafter. They met at Yale and I promise you that was no coincidence.
Hillary married Bill in 1975, and a pair was formed that would shape US politics for the next 41 years; and will for many to come. Bill was
Hillary's father was a textile man in the North; a stout Republican, and Hillary herself was a Republican until life circumstances coerced her to go Democrat, as most flip-flop people do.
I myself was a Republican until 2003, and life circumstances coerced me to become a Reformist; a radical Reformist if you want the truth. Research and events woke me the fuck up, and that probably happens to a lot of us at some point. So Hillary and I have that first flip-flop in common. After that, the others are all hers.
Hillary was involved with Law Firms and several agencies, including ties with Walmart and the Legal Services Corporation, and also the Rose Law Firm; where Hillary became the first female partner there while Bill was the Attorney General of Arkansas (1977-1979). You can only imagine the "educations" and "methodologies" that they pair gained in those years.
The first incident* I want to mention is the Whitewater scandal of 1992-1994. Everybody and their brother that can read a newspaper can tell you that they Clintons wiggled in and out of the pages of LAW 101 to get out of this thing; it stunk from day one. They got caught trying to force people out of business with big money, and lied their way out of it. This is the first time that both of their integrities were questioned, and they both used long strands of verbalisms to talk their way out of it when questioned.
Hillary was subpoenaed by a Federal Grand Jury in 1996 for Whitewater, while she was the First Lady of the US, and lied under oath.
Let me stop here for a minute. When I say that someone lied under oath, I include the person NOT ANSWERING the fucking question. I think that anytime a politician does this, they should be removed from office, and questioned by a panel of citizens, and that panel's findings taken into account.
{*: I'll mention several instances where Hillary's integrity is in severe question; but will not elaborate on the whole story; you can search and read about them online or at a library yourself; they are available from many resources..}
In 1992, Bill was elected President of the United States.
Let me say here, that although Hillary cannot control her husband's actions, I say this. A sitting President of the USA should be beyond reproach, and so should his First Lady. I don't tolerate people that say "well, he fucked up."
FUCK YOU. He's the goddamed President of the fucking USA! His wife is the First Lady, an esteemed position. I don't want to hear "well, they were just this, and well, they were just that." Bullshit. You're the fucking President; act like it or get impeached.
So Hillary becomes First Lady.
Again, she lied to a Grand Jury four years later.
In 1998, Bill was impeached for Grand Perjury about the Monica Lewinsky ordeal, where Bill had repeated John F. Kennedy's acts of having a mistress right there in the White House where his wife lays her head.
Hillary stayed suspiciously quiet. Monica was threatened with her life if she spoke outside of investigation's closed doors.
The Senate acquitted Bill and he finished his term. A sitting President of the USA had committed Grand Perjury, and it was all cool. Holy shit on a stack of pancakes. How the fuck does that shit happen?
Easy. You and your wife are lawyers. Damned good lawyers; make no mistake about it. You use legal verbalism and jargon, dance around questions, and let people take the fall for you wherever you can. That's how out government works.
So now comes 2000. Hillary is elected as Senator from the state of New York, and one year later the 911 "attacks" happen. Hillary supports the sitting President, GW Bush, in his endeavors to attack Afghanistan and Iraq, but constantly spoke in public about how old Dubya was not conducting the operations of the war as Commander in Chief. Flip-flop.
Hillary then took a long vacation, and then was re-elected to the Senate in 2006.
She ran against Obama in the 2008 election, and lost, even though she received a huge amount of votes. However, all during that campaign, she is recorded on camera hundreds (yes hundreds) of times outright lying, or "stretching" the truth when asked bout this and that.
No, I didn't say I heard that....I said it's recorded on video tape, hundreds of times. Search YouTube, you'll see.
In 2009, Obama takes up the sword of healthcare reform that Bill Clinton started years ago, and to pacify the very pissed off Hillary, awards her the prestigious honor of the being the Secretary of State, taking over that job from Condoleezza Rice, another person guilty (not charged or convicted) of Grand Perjury.
Of course, 60% of the people in that pervious administration are, because every fucking one of them lied at sometime, in some way, under oath or not, about 911 and their roles. They should all be hanging from the gallows.
So now Hillary takes up this position and starts building an enormous power base in Washington and abroad, and in March of 2011, convinces President Obama to order military intervention in Libya.
Yes, that's in Africa....If I have to tell another person that, my head will explode.
In 2012, the US Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked. a US Ambassador lost his life, as well as two contractors, and I think ten or so men were wounded.
Hillary claimed responsibility for this ordeal, but constantly lied about who gave who orders and when. She also used a private server at her home to send and store SECURE EMAILS.
Let me tell you that if I had done anything close to that during my tenure as a First Sergeant or a Movement Supervisor with the Army, I'd be in a cozy room at the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth for 20-30 years...not a question in my head over that...
Since that charge, Hillary constantly lies, uses that good old lawyer verbalism, and dances her way out of any conversation about Benghazi, Whitewater, Monica, or the Rose Law Firm that gets brought up. She's a professional liar.
Her husband is an ever better one, but now he's protected by Presidential pardons that Obama would certainly give him, and even if a Republican takes office in 2017, Bill will just plea the fifth, or say that he cant remember.
Hillary Clinton may very well become the President of the United States this November, but let me tell you, that will be one more step in the downfall of this country into what will inevitably be another "dark age" in the history of Democracies.